Electrical & Computer Engineering Masters Theses
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Dc'sign of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Supercnpacitor Charging Circuits Using Optimized Duty-Cycle of Buck Converter
(North Dakota State University, 2009)Energy harvesting has been proved to be an innovative solution to replace the batteries in remote power supply applications. Unfortunately, the limited capacity aucl low efficiency of power conversion restrict the practical ... -
Refinementbased Verification of Elastic Pipelined System with Early Evaluation
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This thesis presents a formal verification procedure to check correctness of the synchronous elastic pipelined system that incorporates early evaluation against its synchronous parent system. Note that the goal of the ... -
Joint Compression and Encryption
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This research work proposes two techniques of joint compression and encryption using Shanon Fano Elias coding and Arithmetic coding respectively. The first scheme proposed is called Adaptive Shannon-Fano-Elias code where ... -
Hybrid Renewable Energy System with Wind Turbine and PV Panels
(North Dakota State University, 2010)In recent years, there has been increasing concern about the world's heavy dependence on fossil-based fuels and the pollution caused by such fuels. This has sparked an increased interest in the use of other renewable ... -
Verification of Synchronous Elastic Pipelined Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The constant shrinking of technology has lead to several design challenges that the synchronous design paradigm is unable to cope with. Elastic design is a novel and promising design paradigm that overcomes many of these ... -
Phasor Measurement Unit Placements for Complete Observability using Linear-Time, Quadratic-Time, and Subquadratic-Time Heuristics
(North Dakota State University, 2010)A phasor measurement unit (PMU) is considered to have the potential to improve the efficiency of electric power systems by monitoring, control, and protection. Through measurements of all bus voltages, incoming and ... -
A Sensor System Designed for Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscope-based Coating Performance Evaluation
(North Dakota State University, 2010)One of the traditional methods for coating performance evaluation is using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS). The theory of using EIS to evaluate coating performance is to measure the coating impedance in a ... -
A New Printed Quasi-Landstorfor Antenna
(North Dakota State University, 2011)In this thesis, a new type of printed quasi-Landstorfer antenna is present ed. The proposed antenna utilizes parasitic radiators to realize a higher gain. The antc1ma is measured to have a resonant frequency of 2.45 GHz ... -
Impedances of a Cubical Quad Antenna
(North Dakota State University, 1965)Rectangular loop antennas and short electric dipoles are two of the oldest antennas in existence. In 1888, twenty years after Maxwell invented his famous Maxwell's equations, Hertz used these two antennas to prove ... -
Lithium Ionic Conductivity and Stability Of Cubic Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolyte A First-Principles Study
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Garnet structured cubic LLZO crystal (Li56La24Zr16O96) is one of the most promising solid electrolytes for next-generation solid-state lithium-ion batteries. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations have been employed to ... -
Using Classification and Clustering to Predict and Understand Student Behavior in an Innovation-Based Learning Course
(North Dakota State University, 2020)One of the Grand Challenges for Engineering is advancing personalized learning, but challenges remain to identify and understand potential student pathways. This is especially difficult in complex, open-ended learning ... -
Extraction of Electromagnetic Properties of Metamaterials with Branch Compensation from Phase Tracking
(North Dakota State University, 2020)In the field of electromagnetism, there are materials known as metamaterials which exhibit unique properties that can be exploited. Permittivity, defined as capacitance per meter, of a metamaterial can vary over frequency ... -
Novel K2W7O22/Ti3C2 Nanocomposite-Based Sensor Device for Breath Acetone Analysis in Diabetic Patients
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Acetone in exhaled breath is gaining attention as a non-invasive means of quantifying blood glucose levels in Diabetics. This calls for development of novel biosensors for the detection of trace concentrations of acetone ... -
A Negative Dielectrophoresis Based Method of Detecting Pancreatic Cancer Antigen CA 242 in Serum
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Patients with pancreatic cancer in metastasis rarely survive, thus the need for diagnostic tools for early stage detection. Current techniques such as ELISA and SPR are complex and expensive and cannot detect cancer in its ... -
State-Space Randles Cell Model for Instrument Calibration
(North Dakota State University, 2020)It is desirable to calibrate electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) instrumentation using a Randles circuit. This presents a challenge as realistic loads, simulated by this circuit, contain theoretical components ... -
Viewer-Aware Intelligent Mobile Video System for Prolonged Battery Life
(North Dakota State University, 2017)In the modern society, mobile is gradually going to become all about video streaming. The main reasons of video growth are mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets which enable people to have access to videos they ... -
Highly Sensitive Room Temperature Sensor Based on Nanostructured K2W7O22 for Diagnosis Diabetes
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Diabetes is one of the most rapidly-growing chronic diseases in the world. Acetone, a volatile organic compound in exhaled breath, shows a correlation with blood glucose and has proven to be a biomarker for type-1 diabetes. ... -
Formal Verification Methodology for Asynchronous Sleep Convention Logic Circuits Based on Equivalence Verification
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Sleep Convention Logic (SCL) is an emerging ultra-low power Quasi-Delay Insensitive (QDI) asynchronous design paradigm with enormous potential for industrial applications. Design validation is a critical concern before ... -
The Design and Analysis of a Microstrip Line Which Utilizes Capacitive Gaps and Magnetic Responsive Particles to Vary the Reactance of the Surface Impedance
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This thesis presents the work of using magnetic responsive particles as a method to manipulate the surface impedance reactance of a microstrip line containing uniform capacitive gaps and cavities containing the particles. ... -
A New Generation of Particle-Based Radio Frequency (RF) Switches for Portable and High-Frequency Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Reconfigurable and tunable designs which provide multi-functionality are highly desirable in wireless communication systems. Amongst different methodologies to design RF switching, a directly connected biasing circuitry ...